Alpine Landscape Quotes

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.